displace vs surrender

displace

verb
  • To put out of place; to disarrange. 

  • To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland. 

  • To repress. 

  • To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced. 

  • To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced. 

  • To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute. 

surrender

verb
  • To give up possession of; to yield; to resign. 

  • To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy. 

  • To give up into the power, control, or possession of another. 

  • To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc. 

  • For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value. 

  • To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet. 

  • To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in. 

noun
  • An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation. 

  • The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand. 

  • The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists. 

How often have the words displace and surrender occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )